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As a needle passes over this vinyl globe by Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki, it plays folk music and national anthems from around the world (+ movie).

When the needle moves along its metal arc it plays sounds from the grooves cut into the sphere, much like a traditional vinyl record player. Suzuki has been working on The Sound of the Earth since 2009 and has now unveiled a prototype, although the design doesn't work perfectly yet – as the movie above shows, the music skips as the globe turns.

"Initially this project idea came from [a desire] to store data in physical media," he told Dezeen. "I have travelled to many countries and each country has a field recording, so you can experience a 30 minute soundscape from top to end." The sounds include pop music, national anthems, traditional folk music and spoken word recordings.